Improvement in coal-hods



W. WILSON.

Patented May 3, 18170.

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Letters Phtent No. 102,639, dated May 3, 1870; a-ntedatecl April 18,1870.

IMPROVBMENT IN COAL-HODS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part 01 thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAMIVILSON, of England, residing at Boston, inthe county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented anImprovement in Ooal-Hods; and I do hereby declare thatthe following,taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form pint ofthis specification, is a description of my invention suffieient toenablethose skilled in the art to practice it.

My invention relates to the construction of coal-hods with reference toprovision in such a vessel for'separating coal from ashes, and holdingthe coal in one chamber and the ashes in another, provision being alsomade forshntting ofl the ash-box from the coal-receptacle by a closepartition, and for letting out the ashes from the bottom of theash-receiver.

My intention consists 'in a coal-hod or coal-scuttle having thesefeatures.

The drawings represent a coal-hod embodying my invention.

A shows a plan of the hod.

B, a vertical cross-section on the line a: a

(t denotes the body or coal-receiving chamber of the hod. I), the bottomor floor thereof. In this floor I insert a screen, 0, or I make throughthe bottom a series of perforations, and under the floor I place aslide, 11, which is provided with a mesh or a series of perforationssimilar to the mesh orperforations in the bottom of the hod, themovement of the slide enabling the perforations of the floor to becovered by the slide, or the perforations of slide and bottom to bebrought into connection, so that ashes in the body a may be siftedthrough the bottom 7) into an ash-receptacle or chamber, c, the bottom fof which is made as a flap, being hinged upon onesidc, as seen at g, andfastened upon the other side by a hasp and tongue, as seen at h, thefiap dropping down (as seen by the red lines) to permit the contents ofthe ash-box'or chamber to be emptied from the hod. v I 1 When ashes andcoal are taken up' from a stove or grate, they are placed in the chambera of the hod,

and the slide is moved to'bring the perforations of the slide and bottomtogether. If the hod be now quickly shaken or reciprocated, the asheswill sift through into the chamber 0, thus separating the coal from theashes. The slide is then again moved to cover the openings through thebottom I), and the coal may then be thrown upon the fire withoutadmixture with ashes, and without disturbance of them.

\Vhen the receptacle 6 has become filled with ashes, the hod is heldover a barrel or ash-can, and the flap is dropped clown, thus lettingthe ashes fall from the hod, as will be readily understood.

The hod maybe provided with atight-fitting cover and the coal and ashesmay then be sifted or separated and the coal returned to the fire,without removing the hod from the fire-containing apartment, and withoutescape of the ashes into the apartment.

Instead of placing the discharge-gate f at. the bottom of the chamber 0,it may open at one side thereof; but I prefer the arrangement shown. i

I claim a coal-hod, having in its bottom part an ashreceiving chamber,separated from the main chamber by a screen which is provided with anopen slide, by movement of which the communication between the twochambers may be opened or closed.

\VILLIAM WILSON.

\Vitnesses:

J. B. Gaosnr, v Funnels Gounn

